From Quinta Vale D’Agodinho and Quinta da Trovisca: Touriga Nacional (30%), Touriga Franca (25%), Tinta Roriz (15%), Tinto Cão (5%), Tinta Barroca (5%), others (20%). Bottled in 2018. The long and very wet winter helped to create the water reserves the vines needed and used during the very hot days in August. Totally destemmed grapes, followed by a slow fermentation with temperature control up to 27 °C. Soft filtration. Winemaker: Cláudia Quevedo. Pair with chocolate, blue cheese, Oscar Quevedo suggests. TA 4.28 g/l, pH 3.6, RS 93 g/l. Deep cherry red with smudgy rim. A little spirity at first. Dark aromas of cocoa and much more black than red fruit. Lots of pepper and black plums and damsons but also with a more savoury/rocky Douro character that you get on Douro table wine. Chewy but rounded, dry, grainy tannins, quite an earthy sort of wine but the dark savour is a very good counterpoint to the sweetness so that it doesn’t actually taste that sweet. Firm, chewy, the tannins giving a lovely dry impression on the finish.
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